Hannah
(2018 Feature Film)

She might be in her 70s, but actress Charlotte Rampling’s famous look has only become more mysterious over the years. This 'existential Giallo' – a type of Italian thriller – is all about that look: Hannah’s repressed grief and unspoken confusion after her husband is imprisoned.

Her opposite number Dirk Bogarde once described it as "The Look": the mysterious, cat-like gaze of actress Charlotte Rampling’s grey-green eyes; deep wells of emotion and grief. Rampling was 71 when she made Hannah and her gaze may well be deeper than ever.

Hannah’s world collapses in slow motion when her husband is imprisoned. Denying us and Hannah information, filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro puts us in her shoes – she refuses to face the facts. Pallaoro captures her life, precariously balanced between reality and denial, in carefully composed shots.

The filmmaker described this work as an 'existential Giallo' – a type of Italian thriller. The tension lies not in what happened, but in what this elicits in Hannah’s mind; restrained behind Rampling’s eyes. Only during her acting lessons can Hannah tentatively express what lies hidden there.

Place: The Cinemas 2

Date: 12 April 2018

Time: 16:15

Duration: 1:13

Place: The Cinemas 1

Date: 13 April 2018

Time: 14:15

Duration: 1:13

Place: The Cinemas 5

Date: 14 April 2018

Time: 10:30

Duration: 1:13

Year in Festival

2018

Director

Andrea PALLAORO

Camera

Chayse Irvin

Cast

Charlotte Rampling André Wilms Stéphanie van Vyve Simon Bishop

Country

Italy Belgium France

Editor

Paola Freddi

Language

English

Length

77'

Music

Michelino Bisceglia

Producer

Andrea Stucovitz John Engel Clément

Production Company

Partner Media Investment Left Field Ventures Good Fortune Films

Production Design

Marianna Sciveres

Sales

TF1 Studio

Scenario

Andrea Pallaoro Orlando Tirado

Sound Design

Guilhem Donzel

Year of Production

2017

Andrea PALLAORO (1982, Italy) received his BA from Hampshire College and his MA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts. His short film Wunderkammer (2008) won six international awards and was selected for the official competition of over fifty film festivals around the world. His debut film Medeas (2013) had its world premiere in Venice. For this film, Pallaoro won Best Director in Marrakech and the New Voices/New Visions Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Just like his previous film, Hannah (2017), world premiere in Venice, investigates the topic of alienation.